232 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. | Conifere. 
elongatis, strobili squamis 4 dorso cornutis 2 exterioribus minoribus, seminis ala oblique oblonga obtusa. 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 571. £. 18. Dacrydium plumosum, Don. A. Cunn., etc. 
Has. Mountain woods of the Northern and Middle Islands, Bennett, R. Cunningham. Ruahine 
mountains, Colenso. Nelson, elev. 6000 feet, Bidwill. Nat. names, “ Moko piko,” Bidwill; “ Kawaka,” 
Cunn. (Cultivated in England.) 
I find no difference between the specimens from the Northern and Middle Islands. The Bay of Islands plant 
is however so different-looking from that gathered at 6000 feet on the Nelson mountains, that I think there must 
be two species. I have no fruit or flower of the former, which differs in the branches being rather broader. 
Gen. III. PODOCARPUS, Herit. 
FL. 2. Amenta terminalia, cylindracea. Anthere imbricate, sessiles; loculi 2, lateraliter dehiscentes. 
FL. 2. axillares, solitarii; ovulum disco lobato insertum, anatropum. Fructus drupaceus, disco rapheque 
carnoso instructus. Semen nuciforme, inversum. 
Large trees or small shrubs, usually with linear, distichous or imbricated leaves; natives of various tropical 
countries, and of the Southern Temperate regions ; various species are found in South Chili, Australia, and Tasmania. 
Catkins of male flowers solitary, spiked, or clustered. Stamens of numerous sessile imbricated anthers, without fila- 
ments, and with a dilated connectivum, two-celled; cells bursting laterally. Female flowers a lobed dise, solitary, 
minute, axillary, bearing a minute inverted ovule: the raphe and chalaza swell during the ripening of the fruit into 
a fleshy drupe-like pericarp surrounding the hard inverted nut-like seed. Embryo enclosed in farinaceous albumen 
(Name from «ovs, a foot, and xapros, fruit; from the thick pedicel of the berry.) 
1. Podocarpus ferruginea, Don; arborea, foliis distichis faleatis linearibus acutis, amentis & solitariis 
axillaribus, antheris muticis, drupa magna pedunculata. Don, in Lamb. Pin. Appendix. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 549. 
Haz. Northern Island, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, “ Miro," Cunn. (Cultivated in 
England.) 
A large timber tree, 40—60 feet in height and 12 in girth. Wood brittle, close-grained, durable, reddish. 
Leaves turn red-brown when dry, 1- inch long, distichous, falcate, linear, acute. Male catkins axillary, solitary, 
blunt, shorter than the leaves; connectivum of the anthers blunt. Berries glaucous, fine red-purple, ž inch long, 
tasting of turpentine, eaten by birds and sometimes by men. 
2. Podocarpus nivalis, Hook.; fruticulus rigidus, lignosus, foliis undigue patenti-recurvis lineari-ob- 
longis mucronatis dorso costa crassa, amentis brevibus, antheris muticis, drupa exsucca? Hook. Ic. Pl. 
1:582. 
Has. Mountains of the Northern Island. Tongariro, Bidwill. Top of Ruahine range, Colenso. 
Very near P. ferruginea, and possibly an alpine state of it, differing in habit, small foliage, and dry? drupe. A 
small shrub, a span to a foot high. Leaves placed all round the branches, patent, recurved, short, 4 inch long, very 
thick and coriaceous, linear-oblong, apiculate, with a very thick midrib.— This very closely resembles the Tasmanian 
P. alpinus, Br.; but the connectivum of the anther in that species is produced into a little horn. 
3. Podocarpus spicata, Br.; arborea, foliis distichis subfalcatis linearibus obtusis apiculatisve subtus 
glaucis, amentis Y spicatis horizontaliter patentibus, antheris acutis, drupis ad'apices ramulorum subspicatis. 
Br. in Plant. Rar. Jav. p. 40. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 543. Dacrydium taxifolium, Banks et Sol. Lambert, 
Hist. Pin. D.? Mai, 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island and northern parts of the Middle Island, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. 
names, “ Mai,” Cunn., and “Mataii,” Col. (Cultivated in England.) 
